Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean speaks at The Iowa Federation of Labor AFL-CIO annual convention Wednesday at The Meadows in Altoona.

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Jennifer Jacobs
| For the Press-Citizen

Another presidential campaign is not an immediate goal for Democrat Howard Dean, who came to Iowa on Wednesday to rake Republicans as either radicals or cowards who are too afraid to stand up to the extreme right.

"At this point, I'm supporting Hillary Clinton," Dean, a former Vermont governor and 2004 presidential candidate, told The Des Moines Register in a brief interview during the visit.

Asked if he's definitively ruling out a White House bid, Dean climbed into a waiting car and said with a grin, "Ahhgh, we're done here. Thank you." ...